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At the time of the publication, in 1975, of his long, seven-part
free verse poem, Dans le leurre du seuil, Yves Bonnefoy had
already offered us Surrealist texts such as the Traité du
pianiste (1946) and Anti-Platon (1947), the considerable
poems of Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve (1953),
the dense, even deeply enigmatic pages of Hier régnant
désert (1958), and the emerging self-clarifications of
Pierre écrite (1965). This self-questioning poetic
production was in addition to, but in intellectual and spiritual
harmony with, an array of articles and books that range from the
essays of L’improbable (1959) with its determining
Tombeaux de Ravenne, the telling …

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